Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-08-26

The road working season is
Mt hand and it would be well for
The county court to see how much
OF he money expended on Adair
county roads is worse than vast
ed.
Circulate the petitions and
have the county vote on local OPP
tion. We should have no half
way business in this matter. What
is good for Kirksville is good for
the entire county. Circulate the
petitions.
The money pail out to road
overseers, alone, ought to keep the
roads of this county in better con-
dition than they are. Less over
seeing and more work is the only
tLing that will ever give us good
roads.
-Kirksville has more than
one cause for rejoicing this week.
Let public affairs be manipulated
ever so shrewdly by self interest
ed parties,-Providence will show
winning hand, when least expect
ed, and spoil their game.
Our August. Pansy has come
with its forty pages of boy and
girl stories and pictures. We
wish we could lend it to all the
young folks we know. But what
is better, send to d. Lothrop &
Company, Boston, for it. The
subscription price is 81 year;
but they will send you one num-
Der for FIVE cents-it may be q
back number. 1t is a veritable
missionary.
In their weekly trade re-
view r. G. Dun e. Co., say that
everything now turns on crop
prospects. The damage to corn
has been overestimated, although
the yield will be below that of last
year. The wheat crop will, it is
thought reach 430, 100000 bushels.
The cotton crop will be below the
early estimates, and other impor'
tant crops will be short. The
movement of merchandise is al
ready somewhat restricted by the
uncertainty rs to the crops. The
monetary situation, though not
without u:.favorable featurs, is Oh
the whole satisfactory.
Since the Canadians have
had to shift for themselves III mil
itary affairs, they have created {
strong and effective system OF mill.
tin, with a nucleus of regiment:
in constant service. The extent
and thoroughness of this system
and the hold it has acquired in all
parts of the Dominion, are sur.
prising facts, as detailed by J
Macdonald Oxley in the American
Magazine. Perhaps we may learn
something from the success of oul
nrighbors in organizing their mill.
tia so that for all practical pur.
poses it is a unit, almost as avail.
able as a standing army.
The following is taken from
the Austin Daily (Texas) States
man and shows the esteem in
which, the father of Normal
schools in Missouri, Prof. ]. Bal
dwin, is held in the state of his
adoption:
"The days work opened with q
mastery exercise by the venerable
and muoh loved president of the
Sam Houston Normal institute,
DIR. Baldwin. All those who have
had the 20 'd fortune to hear the
Doctor Oh the subject of theory
and practice, know what mental
feast is daily spread before Il e
teachers. The subjects of the
doctors lectures are MS follows:
"The Relation of Psychology to
Education" laying special stress
upon the unity of the mind; "The
Education OF Sense Perception y
"Ohject Teaching and Kindergar-
len Work." Education of Self
consciousness and Subject Les
sons" "Memory and its laws. u
The object of these lectures is to
inci.e the teachers to mind study
as the basis of all correct teach
Ing. None could listen to DIR.